2011 - Day 243

Alright, ok, it's something new,
Keep after it until you're through,
Should mannikins try and stop you,
Pull off the arms and bid adieu.
Now when it gets a bit too hot,
Go to the bar and take a shot,
Then gather all the things you brought
And go pass out there in your cot.
Wake up slowly, rise and shine,
Now head straight to the diamond mine,
Listen close and read the signs,
Else you'll find yourself go blind.
Without vision, use a cane,
Use your senses, feel the rain,
Never walk through the fast lane,
Unless you want to be a stain.
Just go back to where you're from,
You can't see what you've become,
A beggar, chooser, loser, bum.
So give a little, then take some.

2011 - Day 242

Dice, rolling down the felt,
Lice, crawling up dead cells,
Mice, burrowing deep within,
Ice, melting in the gin,
Rice, boiling on the stove,
Trice, three times in a row,
Price, how much will you pay?
Nice, can you make my day?

2011 - Day 241

Sitting, sitting, slumbering,
On cardboard made of glass,
Shooting stars drink daiquiris
A little bit too fast,
Spinning wild, uncontrolled,
This is the Revolution,
Follow them who follow at
Ten thousand revolutions.
Give into the daily mess
The land of mistletoe,
They won't remember anyways
That you can whistle though,
And in the end to sit back down
To watch it all unfold,
Writing down what nonsense brings
Their stories all untold.

2011 - Day 240

San Francisco World Champs
The timer counting down,
Have to work through injury
The pain circles around.
Put up a fight, not over yet,
A month to make it happen,
Will not give up until the end
So says our faithful captain.
I have faith and so do you
The particles at play,
We stand behind the Orange and Black
Every single day!

2011 - Day 239

The Eastern Bloc came from the past
And walked into the present,
With it came a summer breeze
So I cannot resent it.
In the flesh she walks around
I ask her what her name is,
She tells me she's a phantom ghoul
Because of this she's nameless.
She says she's here to haunt the souls
Of those in ignorance,
To learn of nothing, live for less
Her test is rigorous.
I wake up sweating, dreams are dark,
I have to take a shower,
Then deep down I feel a rush
An unfamiliar power,
I reach inside my left eye socket
Pull out a dark blue flower,
And then I know what must be done
The very next witching hour.

2011 - Day 238

A week from now we're on our way,
To sing and dance and laugh and play,
Connect the dots, the crew of crews,
Our lines converge, there are no rules.
Creation in it's Grandest form,
The memories beyond the norm,
Wander through the breathing streets,
Hang by the pool, hide from the heat,
Will likely come and go too quick,
But guess what? It'll still be SICK.

2011 - Day 237

Earth shattering turbo-bass
Ripping up the land,
Spewing dust and particles
A normal day on Grand.
The parties were a-many,
The people always new,
We squeezed life dry of every drop
Then Monday back to school.
To think of all the fun we had,
The friends we'll have forever,
Four years, and this the sweet icing
Let's remember it together.
A year to live in infamy,
A year we can't forget,
A tear for every memory
We lived with no regrets.

2011 - Day 236

A bag of mixed emotions,
I hunger for your taste,
A movement deep inside of me
An eddifying waste.
So long the rose doth bloom at dusk,
The turtles crawl to freedom,
The feelings never walk the plank
Though scared to ever feel them.
In this moment
Now's the time,
A shouldered heart
Give yours for mine.

2011 - Day 235

Harsh brush strokes across an endless white canvas,
A continuous thrust into the milky abyss,
Dull, undefined shades of grey
Overshadowed by brilliant manifestations,
Haunting splashes of vibrant chromaticity,
Retinal exclamations released by chemical deficiency,
A prism within ones own mind
Ever-changing with the shadows of imagination.

2011 - Day 234

Deep jean pockets filled with lint
Flashing signs abroad,
Thumb held high to catch a ride
From the winner with a hot rod.
"I'm done forever" you tell yourself
As you make your way back home,
"Volunteer my wallet's time?
It makes me wanna moan!"
Time goes by and you save up
To buy the lady a present,
But then the carrot dangles before you
This time you won't regret it..
Right?

2011 - Day 233

When I think of you, my thoughts do not flow as they should,

Instead, they sway gently from iambic pentameter

To quatrain, to a Beatles song, then a slow violin with

The sweetest piano in rhythm, then horns and a rose

And the softest clouds in the sky, colors that complement

The shirts of kids laughing, playing, and two lovers,

Destined to be, holding hands under the old oak tree

In front of a winter’s sunset, and you, almond eyes,

Delicate rose lips, smiling, and knowing, always knowing,

A universe within a flower, within a snowflake, within a cloud,

Light within light, nothing more beautiful and mysterious,

Forever in my thoughts to be, but never thoughts at all.

2011 - Day 232

Eyes wide while I rest

New worlds, old wonders,

Universes created

To be obliterated,

One after the other,

Stringing together an endless loop,

Subsequently smothered,

The rise and fall

The beating heart,

A drama from within,

And as I wait,

The shadows stretch,

Tomorrow comes but again.

2011 - Day 231

A sunset,

With its many colors 

And contours

And layers of beauty,

A delicacy shared by all,

Appreciated by less,

Revered by fewer,

Truly understood

Beyond the obvious

By none.

Though as long as you can feel,

Touch with all your senses,

Hear with your mind,

Softly, closely, Breathing with your soul,

Where life meets heaven,

And understand

To not understand,

You just might feel

The infinite echo’s of Love

2011 - Day 230

On my back two giant wings,
Let it now be known,
One created from golden clouds,
The other made of black stone.
A Gemini, the twins each control
One half of my destination,
My life does glide both low and high
The depths of my elation.
Every morning I wake up
Not knowing where I'll fly to,
The good the bad the dark the light
To experience it all is my Truth.

2011 - Day 229

Quietly get swallowed by a wave,
Deep blue bubbles form a watery grave,
In passing days it's all but forgotten,
Stretch the boundaries of time
Where there is no bottom,
In unison joins the world large,
From sea to land the soldiers march,
The end is never close at hand,
Bring peace to this ungrateful land.

2011 - Day 228

Let it commence
Let it come from within,
The waiting
The watching
Turn life on it's head,
Do figure it out,
Then tell me about it,
Unraveling patterns
This room is too crowded,
Discovering songs
In mass perspiration,
One thing on my mind
The golden train station.

2011 - Day 227

I'm still there
I tell you now
Will be there long,
Long past the hour.
You talk to me,
You tell me things,
But all I hear
Are memories,
I do my work,
Work extra hard,
But inside
The broken shards,
The colored glass
Of melody,
So great to ride
The gilded wings,
I make my list
I check it thrice,
To plug back in
Is awful nice.

2011 - Day 226

In an epic span of three
Sun sat as many times,
Melted ice cream cones
My mind a mellow fire.
Sound reverberation
I wandered to the beat,
A mixed creation all around
New life came to my feet.
When it was all said and done
I sat and stared in silence,
But beneath the subtle breaths of life
Gave way to musical violence.
Too concentrate cannot be done
Not when you've seen where I've come from
The crowds did hum and the bands did strum
I want to be back where it begun
My mind is full,
My mind is numb,
Worth everything and more
Then some.

2011 - Day 225

Falling quickly down the hole,
My senses all but shot,
From one to another and then some more
An exotically dark ink blot.
Breathe in breathe out
It all comes together,
My macaroni necklace
Hold it firmly forever,
The Arctic Monkeys
Engraved on my heart,
Stand tall on my shoulders
Don't want the end to start.
Can you believe it?
The best show of all
An explosion of electric lights
We all stood together. All.

2011 - Day 224

What-
No rhyme to explain
No time to explain,
Beyond my wildest thoughts
With two more days to play.
Exhausted as I am
I'm filled with life and music
To think that this existed
Before I ever knew it.
With sixty thousand awesome souls
We danced around
And rocked and rolled,
I get it now
I get it now,
Makes perfect sense
Won't set it down.

2011 - Day 223

Step inside and close your eyes,
Don't believe their stupid lies,
Time to ready up your mind
We want to see how far you'll climb,
Never have I been here yet
To see the people I haven't met,
A new dimension up ahead
Pay attention to what they said,
Turn your thoughts into wet sponges
Soak the memories up in bunches
Will it be all that and more?
Is it what you've been waiting for?

2011 - Day 222

The moment when
My whole life changed
A memory so clear,
Naive and young
Hope filled my soul
Eventually deranged.
Sitting there
Without a care
When Mom comes into my room,
The news is bad
Does make me sad
I run by the light of the moon.
My brother is gone
My heart sings a sad song
My life will forever be altered,
Though not in the flesh
He still walks by my side
To help me in times when I falter.

2011 - Day 221

Back bone battery acid
Charging up your spine,
Electric impulse intoxication
Overtakes your mind,
Through vision radiating green
A windowless dark room,
A power surge incredible
Creates a sonic boom.

2011 - Day 220

A handstand
On my feet,
So sad it is
To be incomplete.
When I was built
They didn't care,
They put my parts
Darn near everywhere.
My head towards the bottom
My knees towards the top,
When I start running
It's quite hard to stop.
Sometimes I sit
And wonder why
They put my butt
Next to my eye.
*Sigh*

2011 - Day 219

Electrolytes
Put up a fight
I punch you hard
With all my might
Rejuvenate
Illuminate
Course through my veins
Burn excess weight
We battle long
Our battle's strong
I punch your face
Like Donkey Kong
Until you stall
Until I fall
Help pick me up
Rematch our brawl.

2011 - Day 218

The cave, a mile underground,
With silence brings
An awful sound,
Far away, the Sun doth set,
A scene these rocks
Will never get,
The rushing water passes through,
In ancient tunnels
Black and blue,
These are depths eyes never see,
And hidden there
May lie the Key.

2011 - Day 217

I waddled to a willowwacks
Heard brumbles of brontide,
I fumbled with my finnimbrun
Hornswoggled six rawhide.
Quickly then I galloped home
I shut my doors and was alone,
Did wait until the thunder passed
Then scuttled back yonder twice as fast.

2011 - Day 216

You keep doin' you,
And I'll keep bein' me,
A rolling meadow metaphor
With deserts in the sea.
Life is never perfect
But sometimes it sure feels close,
The twisted words of poetry
Can fill us up the most.
I lay the towel
Upon the sand
I feel around
And grab your hand
We settle in
One with the land
We watch the waves
Life sure is grand.

2011 - Day 215

Cupid is very particular when it comes to
Selecting those two souls that will
Forever be connected through
The infinite invisible harp strings that
Create the magnificent strength of
The globally interpreted word from
The dawn of Life and again
Beyond the beginnings of time but
We still cannot truly grasp until
It burrows within us and yet
We cannot ever truly explain it
Only feel it,
Breathe it,
Know it,
Be it-
LOVE.

2011 - Day 214

So many oh so many
Oh so many more,
They climb the walls
They make tall stacks
From ceiling
To the floor,
They're everywhere
From here to there
They're knocking at your door,
You close your eyes
Yet they're in sight
They drill straight to your core,
Then finally
You fall asleep
And wake upon a shore,
You look around
And what is found
A million trillion more.

2011 - Day 213

A cherry coke
A plate of cheese
A dash of peanut butter,
Exquisite dine
Upon the chime
The wooden bird's soft mutter.

2011 - Day 212

Pleasant waters float the sea,
A misty salted foam,
Underneath the calming breeze
A land where sharks do roam.
And for a week
Yes we shall hear
About their teeth,
How much they're feared,
We'll listen in
Until we're stuck,
The week goes by
We say 'Aww shucks'!
Back to the grind,
It never ends,
Must push the mind
Until it ends.

2011 - Day 211

In San Francisco
Where the World Champs do sleep
Shine in Orange and Black





(haiku)

2011 - Day 210

A die with sides from Oh to Nine
Used in mystical conquest,
To break down doors
With magical swords
The most incredible contest.
With dragons a-blazing
Blue fires amazing
Determine the one who's the best,
Magnificent power
To rewind the hour
Determined that no one will rest.